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...contrast, Humphrey's demonstration that he could do well without Eugene McCarthy's flower power threw the Minnesota Senator's future into serious doubt. The doubt grows even deeper if one considers his odd behavior during the campaign, during which he first refused to endorse Humphrey and then finally did so only grudgingly. Two weeks ago, he declared that "I will not be a candidate of my party for reelection to the Senate from the state of Minnesota in 1970. Nor will I seek the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 1972." What would he seek...
...from his Algerian countrymen, whose basic attitude toward living left no room for abstract speculation. An old woman buys her own tomb and grows to love it. This teaches Camus the value of the present moment: "Let me cut this minute from the cloth of time. Others leave a flower between pages, enclosing in them a walk where love has touched them with its wing. I walk too, but am caressed by a god. Life is short, and it is sinful to waste one's time...
EVELYN LEAR AND THOMAS STEWART: ROMANTISCHE DUETTE (Deutsche Grammophon). This recording unites the husband-and-wife team in a sedate but romantic hoedown. Evelyn Lear, most noted for her flamboyant version of Berg's violently atonal Lulu, becomes a demure turtledove in Schumann's Fair Little Flower. Thomas Stewart, memorable for his dour and doomed Wotan, pours out Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More with as much authority as any cotton-pick-in' baritone in the business...
...still they take the flower as their strongest refrain
...pretty admirals" who kept company with her in the distant past, she breaks into a dance she says she did when she worked as a cabaret star. Stepping gingerly then proudly to the music, swinging into half-remembered bumps in her pink spotlight, Karnilova's Hortense becomes a wilted flower--a honeyed symbol of forgotten dreams. It's enough to make the audience forget that Miss Karnilova hardly bothers to impart the fact that her character is French...